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Distributed Control Problems for the Burgers Equation

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In this work a distributed optimal control problem for time-dependent Burgers equation is analyzed. To solve the nonlinear control problems the augmented Lagrangian-SQP technique is used depending upon a second-order sufficient optimality condition. Numerical test examples are presented.

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Volkwein, S. Distributed Control Problems for the Burgers Equation. Computational Optimization and Applications 18, 115–140 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008770404256

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